hollowed

past tense of hollow

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for hollowed
Verb
  • One of the richest fossil sites is the La Brea Tar Pits in Los Angeles, where hundreds of bones have been excavated, giving scientists an extraordinary window into the life and death of these Ice Age giants.
    Scott Travers, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025
  • Archaeologists excavated the underground burial and found a secondary connecting structure.
    Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 9 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • But a low spot in the ocean, a channel gouged down into the sand on the ocean surface, or a break in a sandbar, can disrupt that flow and push water through the spot to create a current much more powerful than the surrounding flow.
    Jennifer Borresen, USA Today, 20 Aug. 2025
  • The greedy people will get theirs when people get fed up with being gouged at every turn.
    Ticked Off, The Orlando Sentinel, 15 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • After a sacrifice bunt and Sears’ eighth strikeout — one shy of a season high — the 29-year-old left-hander grooved a middle-in sweeper for Blaine Crim to yank out to left, some 439 feet from the plate.
    Jeff Sanders, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Sep. 2025
  • With its signature grooved aluminum shell, Rimowa’s spinners are both a fashion statement and a piece of travel engineering.
    Julie Loffredi, Forbes.com, 26 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • Later on, water may have penetrated through cracks in the rock, depositing minerals to create the calcium sulfate veins and leopard spots.
    Ashley Strickland, CNN Money, 10 Sep. 2025
  • Hamas had brutally penetrated our southern border, embarking on the slaughter of civilians.
    Ron Scherf, Time, 5 Sep. 2025
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“Hollowed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hollowed. Accessed 16 Sep. 2025.

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